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The end of the Great Patriotic War
| Traffic control at post No 30 in an East Prussian town. 1944. (BGAKFFD, 0-135607) |
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| German prisoners of war captured during the Belarusian Offensive. Moscow, 1944. (BGAKFFD, 2247) |
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| People’s artist of Belarus A. Nikolaeva, People’s artist of the USSR L.
Aleksandrovskaya, and People’s artist of Belarus S. Drechin – members of a concert
brigade performing in front of Soviet soldiers. 1945. (BGAKFFD, 2-2939) |
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| The Katyusha rocket launcher fires at the Reichstag. Berlin, April 1945. (BGAKFFD, 0-52692) |
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| Sergeant Meshkov’s gun firing at the Reichstag from the outskirts of
Berlin. May 1945. (BGAKFFD, 0-92946) |
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| Act of unconditional surrender of the German armed forces. Berlin. 8 May 1945. Sound recording. Radio message read by Yuri Levitan. Duration 4:40 min. (BGAKFFD) |
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| Order by the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Red Army and Navy to fire a
salute in honour of the Victory over Nazi Germany on 9 May 1945 in Moscow. Sound recording. Radio message read by Yuri Levitan. Duration 2:20 min. (BGAKFFD) |
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| Verse by A Astapenko “Celebrations”. 9 May 1945. Autograph. Belarusian. (BGAMLI, f. 200, op. 1, d. 13, l. 21) |
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| S. Selikhanov. Portrait of a soldier. 1945. (BGAMLI, f. 173, op.1, d. 54, l.1) |
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| Letter from the soldier N.G. Prudnikov to his relatives in the town of
Gorki, Mogilev region. 1945. (Zonal State Archives in Baranovichi, f. 1265, op. 4, d. 2, l.137-137ob.) |
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| Letter from the soldier B. Narchuk to his parents in the town of
Baranovichi. 30 May 1945. (Zonal State Archives in Baranovichi, f. 1265, op. 4, d. 8, l. 239-239ob.) |
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| Soldiers of the 2nd Belarusian Front before departure for Moscow to
participate in the Victory parade. June 1945. (BGAKFFD, 0-93698) |
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| Soldiers of the 1st Belarusian Front at the Victory Parade in Moscow. 24 June 1945. (BGAKFFD, 0-92598) |
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| Soviet artillerymen firing a salute to the Victory Parade in Moscow. Minsk. 24 June 1945. (BGAKFFD, 1-4927) |
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| List of members of the Pinsk Partisan Formation awarded the medal
“Partisan of the Great Patriotic War”. 15 July 1945. (State Archives of Brest Region, f. 7581, op. 3, d. 518, l.40) |
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| Members of the Minsk military tribunal at the trial of Nazi war
criminals. Minsk. January 1946. (BGAKFFD, 0-579) |
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| Interrogation of the former chief assistant at POW Camp № 131, Langut Karl
Make, by the military tribunal of the Minsk Military District at the trial of Nazi war
criminals. Minsk. January 1946. (BGAKFFD, 0-138824) |
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| Livshits testifying against the organiser of the Jewish repression,
General-Major SS Tarbuch at the trial of Nazi crimes committed in Belarus. Bobruisk. 1947. (BGAKFFD, 0-140363) |
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